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Regarding security, I'm not sure there's more to be worried about than the usual. It's basically like a screenshot or screen recording tool that saves to a local file, except instead of an image or video it's a text file (and consequently even more inspectable).

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From the demo, it seems like the recording is uploaded on their website by default. It is a bit concerning.

It is not. You have to explicitly use the upload command to share a recording.

You can also roll your own tool, the format is reasonably well documented and simple.

From the docs - it gives you control:

> If the filename argument is omitted then (after asking for confirmation) the resulting asciicast is uploaded to asciinema-server (by default to asciinema.org), where it can be watched and shared.

If the filename argument is given then the resulting recording (called asciicast) is saved to a local file. It can later be replayed with asciinema play <filename> and/or uploaded to asciinema server with asciinema upload <filename>.

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